Strategic Priorities
The North Tyneside Climate Adaptation Strategy and Action Plan outlines a route map to ensure North Tyneside Council services as well as its borough stakeholders are sufficiently adapting and increasingly more resilient to the significant impacts of a changing climate and extreme weather events. This Plan is needed to lessen the negative effects, make the most of any opportunities, and address the following priorities:
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Strategic Objectives: Ensuring projects, plans, and processes address resilience to climate change and strengthen the ability to achieve long-term goals.
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Service Impact Reduction: Adaptation allows assets and activities to function amid changing climates, reducing impact on service delivery.
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Financial Savings: Early investment in adaptation delivers strong value for money, with most measures delivering £2 to £10 of net economic benefits for every £1 spent. It also helps local authorities avoid significant short-term costs incurred from extreme weather events.
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Co-Benefits: Well-planned adaptation can deliver wider benefits such as improved health and wellbeing, increased property values, enhanced skills and employment, emission reduction, and support for biodiversity.
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Statutory Requirements: Adaptation is a statutory requirement in some local government areas, including planning, flood risk management, public health, and environmental impact assessment.